The rates of people dying from cancer are predicted to fall 17% in the UK by 2030, largely as a result of earlier diagnosis and improved treatments, according to new data from Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

UK patients should be able to benefit from genomic technology which can improve the NHS' understanding of the nature of disease and allow treatment to be tailored to patients' individual genetic make-up, Ministers have been told.

Patients wait 18 months after first experiencing any symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) before going to see their doctor, and they wait an average of seven years before their doctor starts treating with them a biologic drug, says a new study.

Patients moving between health services face unnecessary risks because correct information about the medicines they are taking often does not transfer with them, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has warned.